Here Comes the Sun...Spring Fever!

Well...Spring is here, which means there is a lot of playing outside here! YES! But Spring also means rain, so there is a lot of staying inside. So to fight our Spring Fever we do a LOT of playing! Tori LOVES to play on the computer and is on starfall.com every afternoon while Brooke takes a nap. She is learning how to read and she loves to play the word games. As you can see from the pictures above, she also LOVES to pose for the camera. For fun, we take the camera out ans she poses and makes funny faces or does dance moves (I think that I am going to put her in a ballet class during the summer just for fun). Tori is "hiyarious" (she says most of her l's as y's). Her other pastimes include finding bugs and other creatures in the dirt (please refer the worm above) and cooking with me.

Brooke is our comedian. She is always trying to make something funnier than reality. I LOVE the spaghetti mustache. She really LOVES to walk around in my shoes and by the end of the day she has at least three pairs of my shoes in our living room. Brooke is also a future photographer...she will pick up anything and put it up to one of her eyes and says "Say cheese!" and make a clicking noise. Some of her fake cameras include cheese graters (as pictured above) and blocks. She LOVES to follow Tori around and tries to do everything Tori does. Her new favorite feat is to climb on her dresser and play with all her bows! What a monkey!

Can you believe that this little girl is 7 months old!? Boy how time flies! Katelyn likes to play in her jumpie, she can now roll from her back to her front (to her chagrin), she eats at the table in a highchair, takes three naps (please refer to the happy napper above) and has just taken on the swing outside (and LOVES it!). All in all...she is a happy camper...even though I believe that she is getting in two of her bottom teeth!

All in all...we are doing well, even though Spring Fever has hit...we are enjoying the good ol' life. We have been seeing a few rainbows, enjoying a few horseback rides, and taking it easy. Aren't my kids just the cutest!

Last night for FHE we planned our garden. Yippee!!! Tori cannot wait to get her hands in that dirt! I really hope that we actually get zucchini here this year!

Hanging Out with Silly Girls, Veggies and Tall Towers

Well, we hang out at the house a lot...I try and get out of the house every once in a while. We have a schedule: Monday-we stay in the house because I have a mountain of laundry to do, Tuesday-we sometimes go to the store or invite friends over, Wednesday- same as the day before, Thursday-we go to the Library for reading time and checking out books, Friday- more hanging out... I cannot wait until it is nice enough to go to a park or something. I mean, we are still a little bit bound to the house because of Katelyn's naps and feedings, but she is good about sleeping in her car seat. So we do a lot of reading, dancing, pretending, playing outside (thank heavens for a backyard!), playing with toys, watching shows, and playing Starfall.com. (Tori can now navigate the whole site by herself and find her favorites! AWESOME!) What keeps me busy besides 3 kids? Reading, Blogging, and Family History Indexing. F.U.N.

(Lora, I think Katelyn looks like Liv in some of these pictures!) Katelyn is loving her new meals! She has tried rice cereal, peas, green beans and carrots. She is also old enough to rough house with Daddy too...she is playing one of the girls' favorites: BONK JIUW (that is like shoo with a little "J" lisp).

Last night we had Family Home Evening (aka FHE) with the girls. Our lesson was on the Tower of Babel and we made the tower with Jenga blocks! They LOVED this lesson. I got it off of Pinterest here. We will be trying lots of those lessons I am sure! Katelyn even got in on it...she LOVED chewing the blocks. Jason's tower hit 11 before it tumbled down. Of course the favorite part was making the towers fall and then building them back up again. We played for almost an hour! (We need to invest in some wooden blocks)

Once There Was a Snowman and Other Shenanigans

We got some snow last Thursday after I bought the girls some snow boots for $5 at Wal-Mart! So we put them to good use! Tori immediately went outside and made a snow angel! Brooke was not so much of a fan, but she looked dang cute in her hat and boots!Tori was in snow heaven!

We made a snowman and sang the snow man song...sadly Tori then proceeded to destroy the snowman. I guess that was his fate because although this is what it looked like at noon, by the time Jason got home it was all melted! This was Tori's very first snowman.

Katelyn, on the other hand, stayed inside all comfy cozy in her swing. She did not want to check out the snow quite yet. As for the shenanigans...well, they always abound in our house. (Did you check out Brooke's BLUE eyes! And have you noticed that Tori's eyes are the color of amber or honey...or as I call them: a nice shade of blonde!)

Well, little miss Katelyn tried her first taste of "real" food (rice cereal) on the first day of March. Her first reaction...gagging and dry heaving. She couldn't even keep down a tablespoon full! The next morning (pictured above in her red PJs) she devoured a whole half an ounce and by today she eats a whole 2 ounces of cereal. She even had her very first bottle with formula! (I told Jason that now that Katelyn can drink out of the bottle I will be free to leave him with the kids for LONG periods of time...he looked at me with a stressed out smile and said, "Right!" Ha ha ha!) She is such a doll! I think tonight she will be trying green beans...yummy-yummy!